17. Memorandum From Richard Pipes of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Clark)1

SUBJECT

  • NSDD on Eastern Europe

As State and Commerce were unable to agree upon mutually satisfactory language to define our policy on Technology Transfer in the NSDD on Eastern Europe, I recommend that the original text at Tab A be used.2

State, Defense and Norman Bailey concur with this decision.3

Recommendation

That you forward the memorandum at Tab I to the President with the text of the NSDD.4

  1. Source: Reagan Library, Executive Secretariat, NSC National Security Decision Directives (NSDD) Files, NSDD 54 9/2/1982. Secret. Sent for action. Copies were sent to Dobriansky and Stearman. “Signed” is stamped at the top of the memorandum.
  2. Not found attached. See Document 12.
  3. Bailey initialed his concurrence above his name.
  4. The “Approve” option was checked. Underneath the recommendations and written in an unknown hand, is the notation “9/1/82 WPC s/memo to Pres. Copy will be Dacom’ed to Pres.” The memorandum to Reagan, who was at his ranch in California August 26–31, was not found attached.